Game or puzzle



(No Model.)

T. W. MQGRATH.

GAME 0R PUZZLE.

No. 437,932. Patented Oct. 7, 1890.

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TIMOTHY IV. MCGRATH, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

GAME OR PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,932, dated October '7', 1890.

Application filed May 5, 1890. Serial No. 350,596. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY W. MCGRATH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Games or Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices constituting a game apparatus or puzzle designed for amusement.

The improvement will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims, and they are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a plan view of the devices; Fig. 2, a sectional view on the line 00 w of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 detail views of the checkers or moving devices used in playing the game.

In the drawings, A represents a board of wood or other material, having suitable grooves B and O, preferably in circular form, on its face. The groove B may constitute a complete circle, as shown, and be separated from the concentric interior groove 0 by a circular partition D,having a gate a connecting the two grooves. Opposite the openingct is a bridge I), partitioning the groove G into two portions.

The game is played with movable checkers or devices 6, having on their faces suitable letters or figures. These are to be placed in the outer groove B, and to be moved therein and passed one by one through the gate a into the inner circle and there occupy a predetermined order. For purposes of illustration nine checkers are shown, numbered on one face from 1 to 9,respectively. These are placed promiscuously or in some desired order in the outer groove, and are to be moved around and entered singly through the gate a to fall into the order of their numbers in the inner groove, as shown by broken lines in Fig. 1. The checkers may have figures on one face and letters on the other, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that the proper letters being provided to spell a predetermined word or words the game will consist in moving the checkers from the outer to the inner circle in the order required to form the desired Word or words.

I do not wish to confine myself to specific forms and arrangements of the devices of the game shown and described, for these may be considerably Varied within the plan of the invention.

What I desire to claim as my invention is In a game or puzzle,a board providingconcentric grooves connected by a gate and a bridge in the inner groove opposite the gate, in combination with checkers having character faces, substantially as set forth.

TIMOTHY XV. MCGRATH. Witnesses:

P. H. GUNCKEL, E. M. SCHUMANN. 

